I'd like to summarize the various opinions on the topics I raised (and hopefully do so accurately and fairly; please correct me if I misspeak) and suggest some ideas for future use.
* Phil! Gold <[email protected]> [2010-10-15 12:08 -0400]: > == "Some of OSM’s Roads Look Like State Borders" == NE2 pointed out that the roads in question are tagged correctly; they're Interstate-class when going around cities but drop to a lower classification between cities. In light of that, I'd say that this gets to be more of a renderer problem than a tagging one. > == "Hyphens" == > == "Inconsistent State Prefixes" == > == "No Prefix" == These related topics spawned the most discussion. I'll go over the discussion for them in my next email. > == "Acronym Markers" == I wasn't happy with the practice of using the initials of a road's name as the value of its ref= tag. NE2 and Richard Welty both like that approach, since the roads in question have custom signage (i.e. not the standard state highway signs) and the roads' initials are the most prominent things on their signs. The initials did confuse the 41 latitude blogger, but if everyone mapping custom-signed roads thinks this is the best approach, I guess that becomes our de-facto standard. Does anyone else want to weigh in on this one? > == "Some Interstates Show Exits—Others Don't" == I had a question about how much information to put into the name= tag of a motorway_junction node. Mike N suggested putting all of the information on the sign (junctioned road, connected towns, other connected roads) into the same tag. NE2 said that the exit_to= tag should be used instead of the name= tag. Peter Budny said that the destination sign relation should be used. (I couldn't tell whether he was saying to use the relation only for connected towns or for everything, including the immediately-junctioned road.) There wasn't much consensus out of the discussion, mostly because few people commented. I guess I'll stick with putting the junctioned road on the motorway_junction tag and connected towns in a destination relation, but I can't tell if there's enough consensus to call that a community standard. As for the exit_to= tag, my experience is that, despite its mention on the highway=motorway_junction wiki page, most people are using the name= tag for the text on the exit signs. If you're interested in getting people to switch that tagging, it should probably be brought up on the tagging@ list (and possibly the talk@ list). -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- "Yield to me, workstation #557! I am Helen, your god!" -- "Helen, Sweetheart of The Internet" ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
